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Türkiye ranks 54 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). CARE International coordinates with Turkish authorities and other organizations to provide refugees with protection, basic needs, and economic empowerment.
CARE International first began work in Türkiye in 1959, and later re-established operations in 2014 to assist with the influx of Syrian refugees. Today, Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees globally, with millions of Syrians fleeing to Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011.
CARE Türkiye began assessing needs and coordinating with Turkish authorities and other organizations to support refugees with food, safe drinking water, and hygiene items.
CARE Türkiye is responding to the refugee crisis with cash assistance, hygiene promotion, dignity kits for women and the elderly, and by establishing community groups that address protection issues, including psychosocial needs, early marriage, and gender-based violence.
However, significant gaps between needs and response persist. Our programming in Türkiye focuses on protection, basic needs, and economic empowerment for refugees, especially women and girls.
With a severely underfunded humanitarian response, thousands of families continue to endure precarious living conditions worsened by freezing temperatures.
Displaced populations across the globe face winter at a time when global humanitarian response plans face major funding gaps.
Six months after a series of earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria, families are struggling to rebuild their lives while coping with record-high temperatures that are further stretching limited water resources.
CARE Türkiye’s helpline, which has been serving as a multi-purpose information line for the refugee and host communities living the South-central provinces of Türkiye, had to be adapted immediately after the earthquakes to meet the emerging needs of those affected.
Souad Aboud is a 20-year-old blind refugee from Syria. After surviving the war, fleeing to Turkiye, and making it through the earthquakes, she is now a community activator trained to raise awareness about topics such as early marriage, violence against women, and child protection.
Even though Vural was also affected by the earthquake he was one of the first to volunteer to help the people who lost their homes, their family members and friends, and everything they owned. Like may other affected aid workers, he continues his important work in earthquake-affected areas in Türkiye.
Earthquakes are gender neutral but their impacts are not. CARE's Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) Brief explores existing gender, age and disability data and information to understand pre-existing vulnerabilities and capacities and how best humanitarians can respond to meet people’s different needs.
English: In April 2018, CARE Syria and CARE UK contracted GK Consulting LLC (US) to conduct a research study on changing gender roles and norms amongst Syrian women refugees. This research was an extension of CARE’s 2018-2019 Syria Resilience Researc
Since January 2015, more than 1 million people fleeing war, persecution and poverty entered or passed through Greece in search of safety and a better life, and more than 1,200 were reported dead or missing.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
